Published 4:00 am, Thursday, April 9, 1998

The Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday the Denver-based Gerry received one report of flames coming from a monitor's parent unit and four reports of smoke, the commission said in a statement.

Black farmers' bias

complaints "too late' Washington The Clinton administration is telling hundreds of black farmers they filed discrimination complaints against the government too late and should look to Congress to recover cash damages.

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In a memo circulating Wednesday on Capitol Hill, the Justice Department stated that even if discrimination claims involving denial of farm loans and other benefits were proved true, current law prevents all but a handful of the estimated 2,000 farmers from collecting damages.

But Clinton administration officials said they are negotiating with Congress on legislation that would waive the two-year statute of limitations for many of the farmers, enabling them to receive money if their claims against the Agriculture Department are shown to be true.

The same question is before a federal judge in a lawsuit filed by 350 of the farmers seeking to represent the entire class and asking for $2 billion in damages.

Janet Reno hears

King case evidence Washington Attorney General Janet Reno is reviewing whether to reopen the investigation of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination based on new evidence presented by his widow.

Coretta Scott King spent two hours Wednesday at the Justice Department laying out her evidence and questions for Reno. She said Reno listened "very sympathetically."

Afterwards, Reno said, "We will carefully review the questions and information they presented, and I will be in touch with them as soon as the review is complete."

School ejects girls

for X-rated tattoos San Antonio Two high school girls were suspended and reassigned for getting lewd tattoos above their ankles.

The 6-inch tattoo depicts a nude woman engaged in a sex act.

The 17- and 18-year-old students at Boerne High were ordered to attend an alternative school for the rest of the semester, beginning Thursday.

Students are not allowed to have tattoos of any kind. Principal Sam Champion also objected to "the pornographic nature" of the body art.&lt;